Word Roots in English: Learning English Words through Form and Meaning Similarity

摘要: The research first proposes a vocabulary learning technique: the word part technique, and then tests its effectiveness in aiding retention. The part of thesis centers around idea that knowledge first 2000 words language learners already possess may give them easier access to of other frequency levels because root parts low new share form meaning similarities with high known words. research addresses issue at two stages: quantify information concerning number of words able be accessed through analysis roots, analyze the pedagogical usefulness accessible words. A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary English Language (Klein, 1966) was used as source show possible formal connections among words. All 2000 list were looked up individually all the cognates provided under each these collected placed each of if they meet requirement their roots share more than one letter and/or more than phoneme known words. After data was roughly gathered, three criteria applied filter data, namely, criterion, criterion form criterion. In applying the lower tenth thousand were removed from data. applying hints given the semantic relations between higher thousand words. rated on scale for measuring transparency. Words level 5 considered inaccessible; that were 1, 2a, 2b, 2c, 3a easy access. the form calculations done semantically show their phonological similarity orthographic relation word. The whose or orthographical scores larger 0.5 were phonologically orthographically Finally the "find" function Microsoft Word check by picking any words that might have been missed round gathering. The above procedures resulted 2156 families are accessed through parts. Among families, 739 can easily therefore more pedagogically useful 259 accessed, but difficulty. 21 pedagogically useful constants selected unknown lower other constants. In second thesis, an experiment conducted test the effectiveness technique comparison keyword and self-strategy learning. results…